[Sigdl-l] RDAP 2016 & Data Carpentry Workshop

[Eaker, Chris]

Hello Colleagues,

I am writing to let you know that registration<http://www.asis.org/rdap/registration-faq/> for the upcoming Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) 2016 Summit in Atlanta, GA, is open. The conference dates are May 4-5, 2016.

For more information on the conference, including the program and registration information, please visit the website: http://www.asis.org/rdap/. The early bird deadline is March 25, 2016.

New this year, we will also be holding a Data Carpentry Workshop<http://www.datacarpentry.org/> after the conference on May 6-7, 2016. Data Carpentry will consist of two days of hands-on training in the following topics:


*         Spreadsheet Best Practices

*         Open Refine

*         Introduction to R

*         Introduction to SQL

*         Analysis and Visualization in R

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the conference co-chairs, Lisa Zilinski (ldz at andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:ldz at andrew.cmu.edu>) and Kate Dillon (katherine.dillon at sjsu.edu<mailto:katherine.dillon at sjsu.edu>). On behalf of the RDAP 2016 Planning Committee, we hope to see you there.

Sincerely,
Chris Eaker

Christopher Eaker
Assistant Professor & Data Curation Librarian
ORCID: 0000-0001-5881-1680<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-1680>
University of Tennessee Libraries
236 John C. Hodges Library
1015 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996
ceaker at utk.edu<mailto:ceaker at utk.edu>
(865) 974-4404
https://www.lib.utk.edu/scholar/

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